Film Festival

The Bleeding Pig Film Festival is back for its fourth edition from Monday 9th to Wednesday 11th September in its usual venue Keelings of Donabate and there are some exciting new changes afoot this year.

The film festival is facilitated and supported by Bleeding Pig Cultural Festival, and managed and programmed by Emma Fagan who runs “Fillum” a company which promotes Irish independent film-makers. Emma has commented that her aim for the film festival is “to bring independent cinema to the local community of Donabate and surrounding areas and to facilitate open discussion between film-makers and audiences”.

This year’s film schedule will feature two nights of short films, many of which are award winning and for the first time the festival will present a feature film which will screen on Wednesday night.

The festival will launch with an Opening Night reception (invite only) at 6.45pm on Monday 9th September. Doors open each night at 7.15pm with screenings kicking off at 7.30pm sharp. Each screening will be followed by an informal Q&A with the film-makers.

All screenings are free.

The Bleeding Pig Film Festival would like to thank Keelings of Donabate for the kind support in providing their venue for the screening and Wiley Design for the logo and our new website bleedingpigfilmfest.com

Fingal Co. Co. and Film Equipment Store provides funding and help in getting this venture going.

The Bleeding Pig Film Festival Facebook event page can be found Here and you can find them on Twitter Here

Our Mission

The aim of the Festival is to bring together different cultural groups on the peninsula of Donabate and Portrane under one grouping and to enable these groups to reach a wider audience within their community.